The part of Romania most travellers come for, and the one most often rushed. Saxon towns with fortified churches, castles on rock, and a mountain road that closes under snow for half the year. We drive it at a pace that leaves time to stop.
Brașov, Sighișoara and Sibiu were built by German settlers from the twelfth century on, and they still look it: guild houses, fortified churches, squares made for markets rather than for cars. Sighișoara is one of the few inhabited medieval citadels left in Europe.
Bran is the one on every poster. Corvin, near Hunedoara, is the one people remember: a Gothic castle on a rock, with a drawbridge and a well that took prisoners fifteen years to dig. We take both, on different days, because they are three hours apart.
A road built across the Făgăraș mountains in the 1970s, open roughly from July to October depending on the snow. Hairpins, tunnels and a glacial lake at the top. Outside those months we take the Transalpina or the valley road instead — and we say so before you book.
Nothing here is a fixed package. Tell us how many days you have and what you want to see, and we will put a route together. Ask for a quote.